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Belgarion2 Something about SAPI 5.1, speech recognition by user
Sorry If this the wrong forum for this thread but I couldn't find the right one. I've surfing for a while and I havent been able to find an example of how to atach a voice recognition for an specified user. Does anyone have an example How can I save the voice of someone in a file or something like that to later analyse the voice and compare it to someone in specific Sorry for my bad english. Thanks! Hi Fernando, You're correct that this is the wrong forum :-) This forum is about Media Foundation, which is the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista. For questions about SAPI, I'd recommend trying the speech newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default. ...Show All
Mike Chapman Missing thumbnails on gallery.live.com
I seem to notice a lot of Gadgets on the galley.live.com page don't get their thumbnail image displayed (mine doesn't seem to show up about 80% of the time). Anyone have any insight into this issue Chris: Here's mine which often doesn't show: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=0bb51a58-ad01-456d-ad0c-295368c51104&l=1 Here are some others I've noticed do not show often: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=d5567ccb-f64b-4614-8144-7846231b6fc0&l=1 http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=ef2cc66c-347a-489f-9798-370996fd67e2&l=1 http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=d66e8cdf-29dd-449c-a6fd-75221ab0d039&l=1 ...Show All
Doug Marquardt Creating GOOD graphics for gadgets...
I use Adobe Photoshop to make my images and I was wondering what other people use. I think the images in the MSFT gadgets look cool, but I'm not even close to knowing how to make such good looking images. The code is only part of it right, many of the custom gadgets I see have kind of a crappy look. Ok, this includes mine too.. as I said, I want to learn.. So what's a good site to learn how to make 3d or Vista type images Would someone suggest another tool than Adobe Or, if Adobe is good, then any tips, tricks, links to make cool images Thanks! JGiers wrote: I use GIMP. It can do most of the things Photoshop can, but it's free. In terms of free, I'd suggest you try Paint.NET . It's nowhere near the complexity leve ...Show All
Mr_White Using Settings to Choose Color of Gadget
I have a simple gadget where I have 4 different color .png bachground colors. The default is red and I want a user to be able to enter settings and choose the background color. I think I'm close, but if someone could give some pointers, I would really appreciate it. You see the bold else If I add and remove that by hand, I can change the color and then change the color back after I remove it. Any thoughts looking at the code I am a beginner, so any help is once again very moch appreciated. <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml "> <head> <title>Settings</title> <script type='text/javascript' src="js\Settings.js"></script> <script> System.Gadget.onSettingsClosin ...Show All
ropley Windows Media Encoder 9
I hope someone can help me. Im broadcasting using Windows Media Encoder 9. Im doing a screen capture off of another computer. But today, its only using black and white screen. Its allways been color. Anyone know how to switch this back Thanks for your time guys. The best place for your question is probably this newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.encoder&lang=en&cr=US But off the top of my head, I'll offer a guess... When switching sources in WME9, sometimes the transition from audio (or video, for that matter) of one source group to another isn't perfectly smooth. This might do something like ...Show All
crussting Web gadget gallery submission failures?
Over the last several days, the only gadgets that have been approved on Gallery are Sidebar gadgets. If you look at the current 10 newest gadgets, all are for Sidebar. Over the weekend, I submitted updates to two of my web gadgets, both of which were rejected (since rejection lacks details I can't say for sure why, but both updates were rather trivial and well-tested before submission). I've emailed Chris Butler directly about this, but since I haven't gotten a response yet (Chris may be out on vacation ) I decided I'd go ahead and post this in the public gallery in case someone else who can investigate may see it here. I re-submitted my gadget updates last night and they're still pending as of right now, so maybe whatever problem ca ...Show All
Ijaz Ali How do I open an .aca file?
Can I open my .aca files You refer to the content of aca files using specially crafted URIs in markup/script e.g. file:///hddvddisc/ADV_OBJ/myfile.aca/foo.jpg i.e. treat the aca file as if it were a directory. The CreateACA tool shipped with iHDSim does not do any obfuscation; an ACA is simply an archive file like a ZIP file (but without the compression). If you opened it up in a binary editor, you would see all the raw text after some header information. If you have the HD DVD spec, it would be fairly trivial to write a de-ACA program. If you have an AACS-protected disc, then you have the option of encrypting the script code (both inside and outside of ACAs). Is the ECMA script obfuscated when written to arc ...Show All
ktto How to create a MFT via IMFActivate?
Hi One of Media Foundation sample in MS SDK is the PlaybackFX. In current PlaybackFX, the effect transform is created in ConnectSourceToOutput by CoCreateInstance then set as IUnknown* object to the topology node. Told by the help of interface IMFTopologyNode we know that a node can be attached with an IMFActivate object of IUnknown* (i.e., the object itself). So here is my question - how do we create the IMFActivate Because there are only APIs to create Activate objects for Renderers - MFCreateVideoRendererActivate and MFCreateAudioRendererActivate, but no MFCreateMFTActivate. I think this is a prequisition for PMP because I can't just create MFT in same process so I must get an Activate object and then let PMP to do so. Should I w ...Show All
gbvdh Sidebar Always on Top after loading
Just an observation, but if you exit Sidebar and then reload it. It goes into "Always On Top" mode until you've clicked on its transparent background! Thanks, I'll set up a repro and file a bug. I haven't seen that - is the behavior that other windows go underneath the sidebar, but if you click on the sidebar then the other window pops up on top of it Sorry, it's a bit more complicated than I first realised. Using the Clock as an example 1. Detach it from Sidebar 2. Set it to "Always on Top" 3. Attach back to Sidebar 4. Exit Sidebar 5. Load Sidebar The Clock now remains "Always on Top" until you click on th ...Show All
Kamii47 No sound with Windows Vista
I have a Dell Inspiron E1705. I just downloaded Vista Beta and love it. Except for hot having any sound. My speaker volume is up and not muted. All updates are complete. I did a driver update and it gave an up to date message. Any suggestions Thank you for your time, BD i had the same problem with no sound. all you have to do is download an audio driver. this is probebly the best one to get as it worked fine for me. it downloaded at around 1kb per second even though i have 8meg broadband, so it took a couple of hours. but its worth it. download the audio driver here. http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/REALTEK/Realtek-AC-97-Audio-Codec-Driver-Vista-6156-Beta.shtml just install and done!!! ...Show All
Marko B. Simic Need help with Gadget? Not sure how to Debug
I tried to create a gadget using the RSSFeeder sample but when I add it to live.com all I get is an error that says "Error". I am using IE7 but am not sure what I can do to debug. If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it! Here is the manifest file with links to the js and css! Thanks in advance You gave the wrong manifest. The one up on your web site at http://www.incendy.com/MyRSS/RssGadget.xml has a bug -- it lists the javascript file as Gadget.js rather than RssGadget.js. The former doesn't exist, which means it can't be loaded, which means Live.com gives you an error indicating that there was an error loading one of the resources indicated in the manifest. Fix that line your manifest and ...Show All
Pockey How to play 2 or more clips in one title
Hi, All! I want to convert my standard DVD into HD-DVD. I see that I can rename my *.vob files to *.avi and create XPL with corresponded Title sections. It works (in iHDSim)...But I need to have only one title (main movie title divided on several VOBs on standardDVD). I want save chapters timestamps also - without recalculation. Is it possible Thanks. You can combine multiple EVOBs into a single title in HD DVD by simply listing them one after the other as PrimaryAudioVideoClip elements. You add chapter marks to the title as part of your XML Playlist. I do not know of an easy / automated way to convert from SD to HD. ...Show All
P Willy Submission - what's the second file? Rejection reason?
Two things about gadget submission. 1. When you submit a gadget you get two fields for files. The first is for a thumbnail, but the second one requires a ZIP file and it doesn't say what the ZIP is supposed to contain (at least in FF). So wht should it be 2. I just submitted a WebGadget and it was rejected, sadly I didn't get any info as to why it was rejected so if somebody could get back to me on that I'd really appreciate it, since I can't fix things without any info. (It's definately not an IP problem, I wrote the game myself). Here's the gadget url: http://tapper-ware.net/patience/live/patience.xml And my website: http://www.tapper-ware.net/ The "second file" is a zip of your gadget, with ...Show All
Ganeshjuma Sidebar Gadget Development tools
What tools are you using to develope your gadgets A notepad Microsoft Visual Studio how about dreamweaver Please tell. I'm using VS 2005 for debugging but I'm using uestudio '06 for editing. Just a simple text editor like scite or, to better manage the project, vs2005 VWD funnily enough. I'd be using VS2005 but I've heard some horror stories of the compatibility issues between that and Vista. Chris I use Dreamweaver (though not really through choice as it's the only web design tool I have atm :)) and Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro. The main problem I have with Dreamweaver is that it sometimes likes to do ...Show All
yzhu Starting Focus Stuck
I set my top button to focused()=true on startup - the intention is to have one button start with focus. However in the iHDSim, I cannot nav away from this button. If I do not set focused(), then no buttons have focus, however I can click on one and then get proper navigation. Ya I did that in the markup, but as I said the focus won't move off that button. I thought perhaps I had misunderstood something. I'll go back and look over my markup and make sure no timing elements are conflicing. I can't think why else that would stick the focus. If I don't set a starting focus things navigate fine, once I use the mouse to get focus somewhere. Just to be super-clear, you should put it in the <body> section, not the <timing&g ...Show All